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Yellow-blue crucifix
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 89.9 x 119.9 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,861
Roitelet couronné
Jean-Pierre Ceytaire
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,395
Romantic Lake Expressionist Painting Featuring Pink Blue Green Waterscape
Pham Luan
Painting - 91.4 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 40 x 2 inch
$7,800
Les marches du temple sous la neige, Kyoto
Dominique Andrier
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,282
Cerisiers en fleurs à Kyoto
Dominique Andrier
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,282
Nevera en la Playa
Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta
Painting - 58 x 69 x 3 cm Painting - 22.8 x 27.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,224
Lac Montagne de BLED Slovénie 1996 Lake Mountain of BLED Slovenia
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$8,940
Under the blue sky alone I celebrate
Melinda Matyas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,808
Le joueur d'échec
Anastas Kamburov
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,262
Character Series - The Crucifixion Of Jesus
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$17,653
Public Transport Series - Oriental Express
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$34,288
Public Transport Series - Inside and Outside
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$35,250
Assiette de poissons
Edouard Arthur
Painting - 33.5 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,411
Grand paysage lacustre 1
Sébastien Couëffic
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,716
The Astronaut
Ian Bertolucci
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.3 cm Painting - 39.37 x 39.37 x 0.5 inch
$5,092 $4,074
Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Kremenets
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$11,282
Palace on the Island / Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland, city landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,282
St. Anna Chapel, Tirol, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,313
Mountain landscape. Ehrwald, Tirol, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,282
Kremenets castle
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,305
Windmills in Ukraine
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$11,305
Innsbruck, Austria
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$11,316
Black cat in the City
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$10,965
Flowers, spring - green, pink, red, white
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,033
Green tropical leaves (1)
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 200 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$22,633
Carpathian Morning
Zlata Shyshman
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,481
Waiting For The Autumn Rain
Zlata Shyshman
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,571
Birkenwaeldchen (Beech Forest)
Gernot Kissel
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,653
To the sea first light
Peter de Boer
Painting - 120 x 170 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 66.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,923
The Golden Dream Of Prague - The King’s Town
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$338 $268
Composition perles de bois
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$368
Juste un voeu
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,092
Peach Garden Outside The World
Judy C. Zheng
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,600
The Child Expects Her Dad To Come Back Home
Judy C. Zheng
Painting - 60 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$13,600
The Queen Elizabeth II
Abraham Dayan
Painting - 100 x 73 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.6 inch
$6,000
RED TOKYO : CRIMSON ELEGANCE
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 100 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,413
DEPARTING TRAIN : JOURNEY’S VEIL
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 80 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$4,866
Le Retour de Jeanne d'Arc
Abraham Dayan
Painting - 130 x 97 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 2 inch
$9,000
Le Restaurant Italien
Abraham Dayan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$12,000
Boulevard des Capucines
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 93 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
Eloise scrubbing the terrace
Elisabeth Sabala
Painting - 75 x 106 cm Painting - 29.5 x 41.7 inch
$2,829
Nature morte avec thé
Henry Meylan
Painting - 54.5 x 74 x 2 cm Painting - 21.5 x 29.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,373
Golden Elegance : Tokyo Tower in the Night's Sonata
Hiro Ando
Painting - 180 x 144 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 56.7 x 1.2 inch
$8,487
Samuraicat’s Nikon Nocturne : Shadows Captured
Hiro Ando
Painting - 140 x 93 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 36.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,884
KOHAKU REVERIE : VERMILION VEIL
Hiro Ando
Painting - 140 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,337
Arbre Feuille
Alain Husson-Dumoutier
Painting - 140 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$10,072
L'arbre de la connaissance #1
Alain Husson-Dumoutier
Painting - 118 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$9,506
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Oil Painting for Sale
Oil painting is a type of paint which involves mixing crushed color pigments usually with linseed oil, although poppy seed oil can also be used. The support on which it is painted must be covered with a primer beforehand so that the layer of paint can adhere to the support; an additional step which is crucial to the creative process and also means that it can be adapted to many types of surfaces.
It was during the Middle Ages that oil painting first appeared and began to be developed in the Western world. The discovery of oil painting is often attributed to the Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck who had been experimenting with various mixtures. With this new painting technique, his works benefited from new transparency effects and a new type of aesthetic was born. His approach was copied and later shared more widely by other primitive Flemish painters. Oil painting replaced the tempera technique, which uses egg as a binder.
Similarly, the wood on which artists painted was replaced by linen canvas, installed on a frame from the 15th century onwards and later placed on an easel. Although it was well-liked by painters, this medium had its drawbacks; its components were toxic and its preparation required a great amount of artisan savoir-faire in the studio. Despite this, it became closely linked to the visual arts and and was hugely popularised during the Renaissance thanks to the Venetian painters such as Titian, followed closely by the Flemish, including Rubens, before it reached the Netherlands who made it their own, with Rembrandt leading the way.
The 19th and 20th centuries saw oil painting became the number one choice and the preferred medium for for modern times. The mixture no longer had to be prepared by artists in the studio; industrialization had made things easier and the paint came pre-prepared, packaged in tubes. The tin tube was commercialized in France in 1840 and revolutionised the history of art by encouraging the Impressionists to take their brushes and paints outside and paint en plein air. It would slowly be overtaken by acrylic paint a century later which simplified things even further as it was dried faster.
An oil painting canvas also implies that the painter must respect the fat-over-lean principle, meaning that a colors with high oil content (fat) should be applied over layers of paint with lower oil content (lean) to ensure that the painting will last longer and to prevent cracking. Oil painting remains a widely used method and numerous artworks are still made using this technique.
Contemporary artists still master oil painting but sometimes avoid working with it in the same traditional ways of the 20th century. The canvas is often not prepared so that its texture can be seen under the layer of paint, as certain abstract painters have done. Jackson Pollock for example used oil painting but did not glaze his works. He didn't even truly paint his canvases as he used a dripping technique; by shaking his brush he created splashes of paint over the canvas…
On Artsper, explore contemporary paintings by well-known artists including Arman, Salvador Dali and Robert Combas.
Oil painting allows for very efficient mixing of colors and tones. Due to its long drying time, it is possible to alter an oil painting days after the paint has been applied. Oil painting also allows for precision and a range of visual effects.
Oil paint and acrylic paint are produced using different materials. While oil painting consists of pigments suspended in drying oils, acrylic paint is water-based. The main difference between the two is that acrylic paints can be thinned down with water, and dry faster than oil paints.
It is easier to correct mistakes when working in oil paint as they are more opaque than watercolors and can be easily scraped off a surface.